Just been listening to a radio piece about those Samsung smart TVs the CIA etc have apparently hacked so they can listen to what's going on in the room. So wondered if any of the computer savvy types could explain a few things I've observed with my voice activated Samsung TV.
1) If it is in standby, it no longer appears on my LAN. 2) I'm not aware of a method of bringing it out of standby over the internet. (it can be set to look for software updates etc overnight, though) 3) The LED on the front of the set changes colour between standby and on. Think most would notice if it was on when meant to be off. 4) Can the really very cheap microphone fitted to such things differentiate between the speech or music etc from the TV's own speakers just a few inches from it and pick up intelligible speech from the other side of the room?Perhaps spies always have their TV switched on with the sound turned down. Despite things like bugs having been around for many a year. Obviously, their spy degree didn't include having a radio etc on loud when discussing something naughty.